The Hunchback of Notre Dames

Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe

Rebecca Mahar talks to the great monodramatist.

To say that Pip Utton, has done all the biggies, from Hitler to Thatcher, Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare, from Lear to Dickens, is to undervalue the nature of his performance. Utton has been those people, in a series of monodramas that allow him inhabit them like a chameleon on a leaf.